Right before winter break began, we decided to go out with a bang. We hosted a hackathon for the STEM Video Game Challenge. We had about 2 dozen attendees over the course of the evening, and had about 3 prototype and concept projects go into development by the end. I don't want to steal my own thunder, as I will be contributing a blog post for the STEMChallenge.org blog describing the event in detail, but it is still worth mentioning. Thanks everyone who could make i ...

Hello all. Below I have included a list of links based on my research on how to accomplish this goal. Up until this point, I have started uploading and installing Drupal and Wordpress on my own domain, and the HTML5 Boilerplate on my people.rit.edu server account. I will supply these links once the default sites are up. Based on the resources below, I am going to test out the Disqus plugin for Drupal and the Roots theme for Wordpress first. * More resources may be added as testing unfolds * ...

Hello All, As a new member of FOSS @ RIT, I would like to introduce myself as well as describe the current research I have been tasked with. My name is Robb Krasnow and I am a graduate student here at RIT studying my Master's of Science in Information Technology. My two (and potentially three) concentrations are Web design and development, system administration, and computer networking. I love technology and have just started using Open Source software on my laptop (don't worry, I will graduate ...

So, after spending some time pouring over some of the high-profile python projects on GitHub, I found a handful of populars and forked to look for bugs. It was successful! I have 3 open pull requests in Bottle.py, twython, and foursquare- python. Bottle.py is a dead- simple micro-framework for python web applications, and one I've played with before ...

The FOSSBox is picking up again :) I love when we have foss courses running, as it brings much more traffic through the lab. We're also in the process of bringing in another part-time hire to help with FOSS@RIT/LTL projects. We spent the afternoon going over the basics of git, and some of the projects that Robb will likely be working on this quarter. I've also hopped on the Tumblr bandwagon, and created a new blog. It is inherently social, and easy to follow others with, wh ...

I am more than excited to be taking the FOSS projects Seminar course here at RIT. This class is shaping up to be all the things they didn't teach you in school that you need to know when you enter into the world of FOSS. # Syllabus The RIT Seminar in FOSS Course It is quite a switch in context for me, but really not. I have always considered my students as colleagues, and now we're playing on the same field and being evaluated under the same ...

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Though Seneca county is only 2.5 hours away from Rochester, FOSS@RIT had yet to interact with our neighbors to the southeast, that is until last week. Through Charles Profitt, I was invited along to attend Ithaca's Education Technology Day or EdTechDay for short. EdTechDay is a gathering of education and technology professionals to meet, discuss, and share stories and showcase best practices, hardware, and new tools. Of the talks ...

/me dug up his old and busted myspace, or my|_| as it is called now. After a bit of a facelift (+.5 for having a decent javascript-y UI) I checked out their "Open" Developer community and RESTful API. Almost signed up for an API key, but quickly rescinded when I got to that pesky Proprietary Rights Section of the Developer Addendum... Pasted here for your amusement: """ MySpace retains all right, title and interest, including without limitation, all intellectual property rights, in and ...

Typically, politics on your average college campus looks alot like a Mock Debate where the Blues, Reds, and Greens all get up on stage and trash-talk eachothers' candidates like Mike Tyson at weigh-ins before stepping into Madison Square Garden. Election night here in the innovation center was not your typical college politics event. The atmosphere looked more like NASA mission control and CSPAN had a 40 foot wide HD love child ...